by
Paul Craig Roberts
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New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask
V
For Vendetta, a film that portrays evil in a futuristic
England as a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends
with the defeat of evil. But this is a movie in which the hero has
super powers. If you have not seen this film, you should watch it.
It might wake you up and give you courage. The excerpts below show
that, at least among some filmmakers, the desire for liberty still
exists.
Whether the
desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen. If Americans
can overcome their gullibility, their lifelong brainwashing, their
propensity to believe every lie that “their” government
tells them, and if Americans can escape the Matrix in which they
live, they can reestablish the morality, justice, peace, freedom,
and liberty that “their” government has taken from them.
It is not impossible for Americans to again stand with uplifted
heads. They only have to recognize that “their” government
is the enemy of truth, justice, human rights and life itself.
Can mere ordinary
Americans triumph over the evil that is “their” government
without the aid of a superhero? If ideas are strong enough and Americans
can comprehend them, good can prevail over the evil that is concentrated
in Washington. What stands between the American people and their
comprehension of evil is their gullibility.
If good fails
in its battle with Washington’s evil, our future is a boot
stamping on the human face forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKvvOFIHs4k&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gHVGOoE48
If you, an
American, living in superpower America lack the courage to stand
up to the evil that is “your” government, perhaps the
courage of Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and
tiny Ecuador will give you heart.
A US senator
from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Ecuadoran government
that he would block the import of vegetables and flowers from Ecuador
if Ecuador gives asylum to Edward Snowden. The cost to Ecuador would
be one billion dollars in lost revenues.
Menendez’s
statement – ”Our government will not reward countries
for bad behavior” – is ironic. It equates bad behavior
with protecting a truth-teller and good behavior with betraying
a truth-teller. Menendez’s statement is also a lie. The US
government only rewards bad behavior. The US government consistently
rewards those who conspire against the elected governments of their
own countries, setting them up as dictators when Washington overthrows
the elected governments.
Menendez’s
threat did not work, but the senator did succeed in delivering yet
another humiliating blow to Washington’s prestige. The Ecuadoran
President, Rafael Correa, beat Menendez to the punch and cancelled
the trade pact with the US on the grounds that the pact was a threat
to the sovereignty of Ecuador and to moral principles and was being
used by Washington to blackmail Ecuador. “Ecuador doesn’t
accept pressure or threats from anyone,” added Communications
Secretary Fernando Alvarado who then offered Washington foreign
aid to provide human rights training to combat torture, illegal
executions and attacks on peoples’ privacy.
Washington,
exposed with its hand in the cookie jar devouring the privacy of
the entire world and prevented by its hubris from acknowledging
its illegal behavior and apologizing, has so mishandled the Snowden
affair that Washington has done far more damage to itself than occurred
from Snowden’s revelations. Washington has proven conclusively
that it has no respect for anyone’s human rights, that it has
no respect for any country’s sovereignty, that it has no respect
for any moral principles, especially those it most often mouths,
and that it relies on coercion and violence alone. The rest of the
world now knows who its enemy is.
Washington’s
presstitutes, by helping Washington demonize Snowden, Glenn Greenwald,
Manning, Assange, and Ecuador, have demonstrated to the world that
the US media is devoid of integrity and that nothing it reports
can be believed. The US print and TV media and NPR comprise a ministry
of propaganda for Washington’s immoral agendas.
On June 24,
the Stasi State’s favorite whore, the Washington Post, denounced
three times democratically-elected Rafael Correa as “the autocratic
leader of tiny, impoverished Ecuador,” without realizing that
the editorial not only demonstrated the Washington Post’s lack
of any ethics whatsoever but also showed the entire world that if
“tiny, impoverished Ecuador” can stand up to Washington’s
threats, so can the rest of the world.
President Correa
replied that the Washington Post “managed to focus attention
on Snowden and on the ‘wicked’ countries that support
him, making us forget the terrible things against the US people
and the whole world that he denounced.” Correa added that Washington’s
“world order isn’t only unjust, it’s immoral.”
The reason
Washington hates Correa has nothing to do with Snowden. That Ecuador
is considering asylum for Snowden is just an excuse. Correa is hated,
because in the second year of his first term he repudiated the $3
billion dollar foreign debt that corrupt and despotic prior regimes
had been paid to contract with international finance. Correa’s
default threat forced the international financial gangsters to write
down the debt by 60 percent.
Washington
also hates Correa because he has been successful in reducing the
high rates of poverty in Ecuador, thus building public support that
makes if difficult for Washington to overthrow him from within.
Yet another
reason Washington hates Correa is because he took steps against
the multinational oil companies’ exploitation of Ecuador’s
oil resources and limited the amount of offshore deposits in the
country’s banks in order to block Washington’s ability
to destabilize Ecuador’s financial system.
Washington
also hates Correa for refusing to renew Washington’s lease
of the air base in Manta.
Essentially,
Correa has fought to take control of Ecuador’s government,
media and national resources out of Washington’s hands and
the hands of the small rich elite allied with Washington. It is
a David vs. Goliath story.
In other words,
Correa, like Venezuela’s Chevez, is the rare foreign leader
who represents the interests of his own country instead of Washington’s
interest.
Washington
uses the various corrupt NGOs and the puppet government in Colombia
as weapons against Correa and the Ecuadoran government. Many believe
that it is only a matter of time before Washington succeeds in assassinating
Correa.
American patriots,
who feel that they should be on “their” government’s
side regardless of the facts, would do well to remember what true
patriotism is. For Americans, patriotism has always meant allegiance
to the Constitution, not to the government. The oath is to defend
the Constitution against enemies domestic and foreign. The Bush
and Obama regimes have proven themselves to be the Constitution’s
worst enemies. It is not possible for a true patriot to support
a government that destroys the Constitution. The United States is
the Constitution. Our country is not the Obama regime, the Bush
regime, or some other administration. Our country is the Constitution.
The Constitution is our country.
Beyond
obligations to one’s own country, all humans have a responsibility
to human life itself. Washington’s puppet states, such as the
NATO countries, Japan, and Colombia, by providing cover and support
for Washington’s aggression are enabling Washington to drive
the world into World War III.
The temptation
of Washington’s money easily overwhelms weak characters such
as Tony Blair and David Cameron. But the governments of NATO countries
and other accommodating states are not only selling out their own
peoples by supporting Washington’s wars of aggression, they
are selling out humanity. Washington’s hubris and arrogance
grow as Washington bumps off country after country. Sooner or later
Russia and China, will realize that they themselves are targets
and will draw firmer lines. Arrogance will prevent Washington from
acknowledging the lines, and the final war will be launched.
Washington’s
hegemonic impulse is driving the world to destruction. The peoples
of the world should realize this and force their governments to
stop enabling Washington’s aggression.
July
1, 2013
Paul
Craig Roberts, a
former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases
of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book,
The
Tyranny of Good Intentions,
co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how
americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random
House. Visit his website.
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